CIES Bulletin, May 2005

Volume 1, Number 4

(announcements are hyperlinked – click on them to go to the related website)

 

 

CIES News:

Are you Interested in starting a CIES Special Interest Group? The deadline to form a SIG and get Board approval is July 1, 2005. see the website for more details.
 
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of the Comparative Education Review on the theme of “Education in Islam: Myths and Truths.” Date of publication will be August 2006 and deadline for submitting manuscripts is 1 August 2005. For details go to CER website: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CER/call.html. If you have any questions, send an email to: cer@pitt.edu. Click here to download full announcement.
Journals:
 
New On-line Journal, Research in Comparative and International Education
 
First On-line Issue of The Journal of Education for International Development (JEID)
 
 
Call for Contributors/Authors:
 
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide
 
BOOK SERIES: Schooling Around the World
 
Conferences:

Southern African Comparative and History of Education Society (SACHES) Conference 16-19 September, 2005

 

Questioning 'Best Practice' in Education: Benefits and Disadvantages, Debates and Dilemmas - 33rd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES) 2-4 December 2005
 
First global Meeting of Associations, Egypt, November 2005
The 2nd Worldwide Forum for Comparative Education, Beijing August 22-24, 2005
 
The Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK) 2006 Annual Conference January 21, 2006
 

Books:

 

Ninnes, Peter and Mehta, Sonia (eds). 2004. Re-Imagining Comparative Education:
Postfoundational ideas and applications for critical times
Internationalizing of Higher Education: Critical Explorations of Pedagogy and Policy, Edited by Peter Ninnes and Meeri Hellsten
Balancing the Books: Household Financing of Basic Education in Cambodia, by Mark Bray and Seng Bunly

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